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Google began its play for the education market late last year with a student-oriented version of the Play Store. Since then, partners of the Google for Education program have provided their classes with learning software and tools on select Chromebooks and Android-based tablets. Today, Mountain …

A crisis in global education is costing governments $129bn a year, while 10 percent of spending on primary learning is lost on poor quality education that is failing children, a new report by UNESCO has said.<p>The report,<i>Teaching and learning: Achieving quality for all</i>, released on Wednesday, says …

Telerik has long made a wide range of tools for developers, ranging from the Kendo UI jQuery framework to the cross-platform development service Icenium and numerous related backend services for mobile and desktop apps. Today, the company is combining all of these tools under the “Telerik Platform” …

As the popularity of crowdfunding grows ever larger, an interesting new trend has started popping up: developers, curious if a new feature is worth adding to their products, are asking interested customers to chip in to cover the costs of development. In other words: if you <i>really</i> want a feature, …

And on Day 1 it already has all hallmarks of a crazy-successful company: amazing tech, an impressive team and more than $1 million in sales.<p>Shape Security has created a new kind of computer security technology that uses hackers' tricks against them.<p>To understand how this works, you have to …

Life's epic management challenge is motivating others to do what they'd rather not do. Here's one way leaders can persuade without pushing or alienating.<p>The greatest management challenge everyone faces is motivating people to do what they'd rather not do. So how can leaders can persuade others …

Chinese media says the village in the country's southwest became rich after locals invested in pig farms, cherry growing and hydroelectric energy<p>Rural farmers from southwest <b>China</b> have become instant celebrities at home after building a £1.3 million "money wall" in their village with rectangular …

Just as we were wrapping up CES today, we caught up with our friends over at PMD Technologies who surprised us with a little exclusive. What you see above is the new CamBoard Pico XS gesture camera that's dwarfed by the Pico S -- the one we saw at Computex -- next to it. This tiny module is only …

Keecker is a video projector that also syncs with smartphones so you can turn any wall into a screen for watching movies, checking email, and more.<p>Meet Keecker, a robot that looks like Wall-E, scoots around like a Roomba, and just might represent the future of home entertainment.<p>Keecker is a video …

Opinions expressed by <i>Entrepreneur</i> contributors are their own.<p>Business marketing last year was like a roller coaster ride. We saw new platforms, new channels, new roles and new tools pop up all over the place. It's as though innovation and growth is speeding up all around us and we are surrounded by …

By this point, most of us are accustomed to being able to talk to our laptops and phones to get them to do what we want (some of the time, at least). Now, Ivee Sleek is here to give you the same control over all those WiFi-equipped lightbulbs, thermostats and door locks we've been seeing lately. …

Bang & Olufsen’s latest household gadget aims to make controlling music as easy as turning on the lights. In fact the company hopes homeowners install its $1,000 Essence system near a common light switch. Just don’t mistake it for a Nest Thermostat.<p>The Essence consists of two parts. The round, …

Nest is now rolling out a 4.0.1 upgrade to its smart thermostat after last month’s faulty 4.0 firmware caused Wi-Fi and battery issues. Update 1/7/14: Nest tells me the 4.0 bugs are not responsible for turning people’s heat off or down in the dead of winter, but that Nest hardware issues are …

It doesn’t matter how busy you are. If you want to successfully market your business, you need a plan. Here’s seven steps to get you there.<p>A lack of a marketing plan is the expanded definition of insanity: doing the same things in the new year, and expecting the same results. How would a company …

With the exception, perhaps, of the traditional trade show flu, nothing's thicker in the air CES than overlapping WiFi signals. Phones, PCs, SmartTVs, game consoles, tablets and routers are all desperately reaching out to something to connect to, and D-Link is happy to oblige. This year, the …

If you think developers predict the future then there is more reason to believe that Bitcoin is the real deal. The crypto currency is a hit with developers, according to data collected on GitHub by the founders of Bitcoin Pulse, a service recently launched that tracks Bitcoin adoption.<p>Bitcoin Pulse …

If 2013 was the year smart home became sexy again, 2014 is the year it will go mass market.<p>And while service providers with managed home services are a big part of why smart home is reaching a wider audience, here are some other interesting companies helping to lead the charge in 2014.<p><b>Revolv</b><p>A few …

You already spend all waking hours with your staff. Moving in together--if you can handle it--could save you serious cash.<p>Sometimes thinking outside the box means thinking outside the traditional office.<p>When SceneTap first launched in 2010, one co-founder lived in Chicago, the other in Dallas. Part …

An underwater drone that you can control with your tablet or smartphone from up to 300 feet away. Reckon that's worth a pledge of around $200? Plenty of you did, because Ziphius is now a very real thing, thanks to its passionate everyman backers. Galvanized by some <i>very</i> successful projects last …

<b>Editor’s note:</b> <i>James Altucher is an investor, programmer, author, and several-times entrepreneur. His latest book is “Choose Yourself!”</i> <i>(foreword by Dick Costolo, CEO of Twitter). Follow James on Twitter @jaltucher.</i><p>I’ve never read a book on sales. They seemed corny. Like many people, I always looked …

The designer behind <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>'s distinctive style and covers is heading to Apple. In an interview with <i>Mediabistro</i>, Arem Duplessis — the design director for all <i>Times</i> magazines — says that after 10 years with <i>The New York Times Magazine</i>, he'll begin working as a creative director at …

If you believe common wisdom, it shouldn't be possible to take over most webcams without alerting users. The indicator LED is supposed to be hack-proof, after all. However, a pair of Johns Hopkins researchers have recently published a research paper showing that it's possible to control the camera …